Bilbo

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What amuses me is that these Rush bass lines were so hard when I was trying to play them (I got my first bass the year MP came out). Yesterday, I played it through off the page without any problems. I guess that's what they call progress 😀

Me too but, for some reason, I never got into it. Love Patrick W, though. Had for years before this album came out. Have you seen his Web page? http://www.patrickwoodroffe-world.com/

I used to play 'America' so often when I was a kid. I had it on that 'Yesterdays' album. Still sounds SOOOOO good. (I actually knew that version years before I heard the Paul Simon version)

It was only a matter of time before I would get to it; Geddy Lee's bass part from 'Limelight' by Rush, from their 1981 album 'Moving Pictures'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/limelight-rush/.

Kermit Driscoll from Bill Frissel 's band always comes to mind when the word underrated is used. Andy West from the Dixie Dregs. Neil Murray - rated by rockers but underrated in fusion circles.

And here is the bass part.... https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/evidence-of-autumn-genesis/

I love OFTV. One of my favourite Genesis tracks and the one that made me realise that almost all of the tunes I prefer are Tony Banks compositions. I think A Curious Feeling is THE greatest Prog album ever. Have you heard this Genesis B-side?

Yes they bloody well are 😀

It's going to sound better just not £4885 better. I agree with the Swallow comment. It was one of the reasons I wanted to try it on this gig

Not me. The Diamond Dave/Fast Eddie chemistry was all of it, for my money.

Miles who? Miles is a great example of personal marmite. I LOOOOOVE some of what he did and hate a lot of it too. That 70s stuff he did does nothing for me. I have never 'got' what the fuss was about 'beaches Brew'. Love his stuff with Gil Evans, love the classic quintets, ambivalent about the Marcus Miller era and so on. I guess all these bands are the same in that respect. Like 70s Yes, don't like Rabin. Like Genesis pre-Collins, post-Gabriel between this LP and that one and so on. Like the original Soft Machine but not the later versions, hate the orginal Colosseum but love Colosseum II. Love Lord of The Rings films, hate The Hobbit movies. Love Stephen King's Dark Tower series, hate the latest novel. Such is life.

It has to resonate and things resonate with different people in different ways. For some, it is the dance, for others the song. For me it was always the notes, the chords, the harmony, the sounds. Prog does that for me in a way that other genres don't. I don't like Floyd because the rhythms are generally unsophisticated, that harmonies a little too diatonic and so on. Yes and Genesis had more of that going on, arrangements that went somewhere unpredictable, glorious range of instruments, solo guitar to massive soundscapes etc etc. I do think a lot of new Prog lacks that breadth and it can be a little 'formulaic' but the music industry in the 70s let some brilliant stuff through: would CTTE er Relayer be underwritten by record companies today?

Another one that I had been meaning to get to for years. It ended up being a lot less complicated than I thought it would but it remains one of my favourite tracks by the UK Jazz Rock band Colosseum II. The first of their three albums was 'Strange New Flesh' and it was the only album that featured Neil Murray as the bass player. This is their absolutely glorious arrangement of the Joni Mitchell song 'Down To You'. Mike Starrs on vocals, Murray on bass, Jon Hiseman on drums, Gary Moore on guitar and Don Airey on keyboards. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/down-to-you-colosseum-ii/

Pink Floyd do nothing for me whatsoever. Can't see what the fuss was/is about. DSOTM sounds turgid to me. There are odd moments I like but, generally, its all a bit iffy. My loss, I guess.

Another track from the same gig.

The strings that were on it when it came. 😂

I was listening through headphones and it sounds great.

I am impressed that you got that far 😀

I posted at the time that I did the gig how pleased I was with the sound of this bass live. I finally got around to editing the video down so I can post a tune for people to hear. Here is the bass featured in a scaled down version of Charlie Parker's 'Yardbird Suite'. The band had never played together before AND it was the first gig most of us had done in six months so this is a bit raw but I think the bass sounds really interesting. Remember, this bass costs £115.

Music is only valid if you CAN'T dance to it 😀

For the record, I would never have been at the disco in the first place. My idea of Hell.

Groove schmooove. Grooving is the bit where one idea lasts for bloody ages before something happens. It's the bit you dance to and NOBODY DANCES AT A YES GIG. Groove, my hairy Welsh a***.

Is it me or did Rush sing more about Goblins and whatnot than Yes? The Necromancer, ByTor and the Snow Dog, even Rivendell, FFS.

I bought 90125 but never really enjoyed it - the machines had taken over. Up until then, I loved everything and, for a while, listened to them daily, again and again, in the dark, headphones, whilst painting and drawing (Art student). After 90125? Not so much (a lot of the later stuff I haven't even heard as I have never got to it). They also got me into Jazz as I also did the solo albums and eventually got to Bruford. Love the Jon Anderson solo albums Animation, Song Of Seven and Olias of Sunhillow. Love bits of Steve Howe's stuff, Chris Squire's, Rick Wakeman's etc but, for me, it was all Jon. I think the first two albums are massively underrated; Yes and Time And A Word. More song oritentated but the songs have that Yes approach to arrangement. They steal medcilessly and reframe brilliantly. Massively creative. I like The Yes Album but I think it is overrated. I LOVE the long form albums; Close To The Edge, Relayer, Tales of Topgraphic Oceans. Going For The One is a majorly strong album and I think Tormato is underrated but there are a couple of clinkers on there. Best of CDs are risky as they generally feature what is available for cheap (early stuff, poor live bootlegs, obscure radio recordings etc) rather than what is the best of the band. I think there is something great about seeing these longer form tracks performed live. I saw this recently and was blown away. The second video is a 'cover' with Jon Anderson on vocals but is astonishing.